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...weekend, crews were still sifting rubble for four missing persons. Mostly the searchers turned up not corpses but the mere record of lives: a half-buried checkbook, a Christmas-tree stand, a little red wagon crushed under a beam. In Del City, Monica Hicks wandered the vacant lot that had been her home and remarked, "I knew it would be bad, but I didn't prepare myself for this. My three-year-old said, 'Mommy, the tornado ate our house.'" Hicks spotted a pink plastic Cadillac on the ground with a doll at the wheel and broke into a loopy...
...life strung out on heroin and completely submissive to Cyrus' domineering and terrifying presence. Miraculously, she summoned the strength to break away from him, and though it almost cost her her life, she managed to defy Cyrus. Heroin proved harder to shake, and Case has fallen painfully off the wagon twice already. However, full of extraordinary willpower, Case tries to shake her habit a third time and offers her help to a stranger, in order to save his little girl from a fate she knows too well. Each character brings personal demons into the struggle to hunt down individual night...
...being shot down. Proof of the havoc that can wreak could be seen last Wednesday, when a U.S. F-16 apparently fired on what the pilot thought was a military convoy from 15,000 ft.--nearly three miles up. Unfortunately, his laser-guided bomb obliterated a tractor and wagon carrying Albanian Kosovars. Belgrade said 75 people died...
...rented. Robert Stokes, a retired Dallas high school principal, has traced his family from 17th century Maryland through Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia and Mississippi to Texas. "It is such a thrill when you find a census about an old relative that shows he owned 26 pigs and a wagon," he says. "Then you have to go to the next census to see how he made out. If he had horses, and more pigs, he was doing well...
...Jean O'Keefe, 44, did not have the time to bask in the sun as she herded her three children into the station wagon after a half-day of shopping in Harvard Square. Though she didn't have time to enjoy it, she heaped praise on the warm weather, crediting it with making her job as a full-time mother much easier...